Hi
I have only recently started using UK Trainsim and have noticed the new Pop Up asking me if I Agree to Terms and Condiitions.
I do not see as to why this should appear on every download that I do "unecessary mouse clicks". Surely Terms and Conditions should be agreed to on one page then with a tick box at the bottom.!??! There are some 4000 files on the site, thats 4000 times i have to agree to the same thing?!??!
Tazman
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leviathan1949
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It is merely a reminder, the file will automatically start downloading.
We have had a lot of problem with people ignoring the wishes of the authors and it's simply there to request that people pay a bit more attention to the appropriate section of the readme before they go stealing textures etc. It doesn't happen too frequently, but every time it does it puts another author off releasing any more of their work and then the whole community suffers.
With or without the terms and conditions text, the pop-up is there for other reasons though due to the new download mechanism being on a different technology to the main web site. Without the popup it can't give any kind of useful error messages (unfortunately most browsers ignore the error messages returned by FTP and simply put something useless up like "page not found").
As I say though, it should immediately bring up a download box in addition, you shouldn't have to click anything unless you have security settings on your machine disabling 'meta refresh'.
Matt.
Matt.
We have had a lot of problem with people ignoring the wishes of the authors and it's simply there to request that people pay a bit more attention to the appropriate section of the readme before they go stealing textures etc. It doesn't happen too frequently, but every time it does it puts another author off releasing any more of their work and then the whole community suffers.
With or without the terms and conditions text, the pop-up is there for other reasons though due to the new download mechanism being on a different technology to the main web site. Without the popup it can't give any kind of useful error messages (unfortunately most browsers ignore the error messages returned by FTP and simply put something useless up like "page not found").
As I say though, it should immediately bring up a download box in addition, you shouldn't have to click anything unless you have security settings on your machine disabling 'meta refresh'.
Matt.
Matt.